Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Neurosurgery
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Neurosurgery
9.99 €
When we make mistakes or encounter other people's mistakes, we comfort ourselves with the phrase "It's human nature to make mistakes". But do they comfort the person who has been victimized by someone else's incompetence? And do they comfort the doctor who failed to help?
We would like to believe that the doctor is infallible in the workplace. In the operating room, he is omnipotent, never tired or feeling ill, never irritated or distracted by extraneous thoughts. But what is it really like to be a neurosurgeon? How does it feel to know that not only the patient's life depends on your actions, but also his or her personality - the ability to think and create, to be sad and happy?
Sooner or later, every neurosurgeon inevitably asks himself these questions, because any operation involves enormous risk. Henry Marsh, a world-famous British neurosurgeon, has pondered them throughout his career, and the result of his reflections is a fascinating, extremely frank and poignant book, the main idea of which can be summarized in two short words: "do no harm.
We would like to believe that the doctor is infallible in the workplace. In the operating room, he is omnipotent, never tired or feeling ill, never irritated or distracted by extraneous thoughts. But what is it really like to be a neurosurgeon? How does it feel to know that not only the patient's life depends on your actions, but also his or her personality - the ability to think and create, to be sad and happy?
Sooner or later, every neurosurgeon inevitably asks himself these questions, because any operation involves enormous risk. Henry Marsh, a world-famous British neurosurgeon, has pondered them throughout his career, and the result of his reflections is a fascinating, extremely frank and poignant book, the main idea of which can be summarized in two short words: "do no harm.
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